It’s “hard not to reach some dark conclusions” about anti-Trump and pro-Clinton bias inside the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI with documents Congress already has, but congressional investigators are eager for the arrival of Monday’s 5 p.m. document production deadline, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) warned on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“It raises a really fair question about whether the Trump investigation was really about national security or whether it was about a political agenda — especially when you layer on top of that who they assigned — [former senior FBI counterintelligence official] Peter Strzok and a bunch of Trump-hating people to investigate President Trump,” said Ratcliffe, a member of the House Committee on the Judiciary (pictured above right). “It’s hard not to reach some dark conclusions.”

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Half a dozen House and Senate committees have been seeking documents regarding DOJ and FBI investigations of 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to conduct official business as secretary of state. They also want documents pertaining to the events leading to special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into allegations of collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Top DOJ and FBI officials have slowly increased the pace of their sluggish document production in recent weeks but only after lawmakers threatened to hold them in contempt — or impeach them.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said on “Sunday Morning Futures” that his committee “would prefer to have [the documents] produced voluntarily rather than use more subpoenas, but we’ll do whatever it takes to get the information that leads us to the truth.”

A Republican House Judiciary Committee aide told LifeZette’s Connor Wolf that the committee “has been in contact daily with the Justice Department this week to ensure they produce all the documents subpoenaed by the committee earlier this year.”

“The Justice Department has produced more documents last week and has requested more time to produce additional documents,” the aide added. “This request seems to be reasonable, and we expect the Department to comply with the terms of the subpoena.”

Goodlatte, along with House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C., pictured above left), have been demanding documents for months while mostly getting delays, excuses, refusals and redactions in response.

Ratcliffe noted that Congress is still waiting for documents on reports that the FBI used “confidential human sources” to interact with the Trump campaign prior to the official opening of the investigations into allegations of Trump-Russia collusion.

“What we want are the documents that would establish that. What we want is a very clear answer from the FBI and the Department of Justice. And that’s not what we have gotten in the classified and unclassified responses that came in late on Friday night,” he said, noting that congressional investigators constitutionally “deserve” answers to their inquiries.

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“Look, we don’t want any drama. We want the documents, and we want real, clear answers from our own justice officials,” Ratcliffe said.

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said also on “Sunday Morning Futures” that there has been “continual bad faith from the FBI and the Department of Justice” in the sluggish pace of document production.

“This was delayed and delayed, and literally at the 11th hour Friday night we got the response. The response is inadequate,” said King (pictured above center). “They have to let us know, first of all, where human sources used? Were they informants? Were they being paid? And when did they become used by the FBI and/or the DOJ?”

“When did this investigation start, if they actually used sources before the official start of the investigation? That raises the most serious questions,” King continued. “Who is responsible? … They keep ducking it.”

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FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein are “obstructing” congressional investigators’ efforts and ability to carry out their constitutional duties, King said.

“And people have complained for years that Congress doesn’t do an adequate job of oversight. Well, we are doing it now,” King said. “These guys won’t comply. It’s really shameful.”

Trump tweeted a rebuke Monday to DOJ and FBI for their failure to produce subpoenaed documents swiftly.

“I have tried to stay uninvolved with the Department of Justice and FBI (although I do not legally have to), because of the now totally discredited and very expensive Witch Hunt currently going on. But you do have to ask why the DOJ & FBI aren’t giving over requested documents?” Trump wrote.

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